can some tell me what is the difference bitween portinstall and make install clean, and in which way should one portupgrade its ports? thnk you in advanced -- Mohamed M. Maher
portinstall and portupgrade are scripts to do 'make install clean' in an easy way :) Maher Mohamed wrote:>can some tell me what is the difference bitween portinstall and make >install clean, and in which way should one portupgrade its ports? > >thnk you in advanced > > >
On Sunday 26 June 2005 19:12, Maher Mohamed wrote:> can some tell me what is the difference bitween portinstall and make > install clean, and in which way should one portupgrade its ports?portinstall is a ruby program which comes with portupgrade which you can use to build and install ports. It can do some things which you can't do with a simple 'make install'. For example, I often use portinstall to create packages for a port and its dependancies. See the portupgrade manual page for details about how to use it. You should also look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf for how to set more advanced configurations for your system.> thnk you in advanced-- Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK.
Hi!> > portinstall is a ruby program which comes with portupgrade >"portinstall" = "portupgrade -N" -- wbr, sergey v. spivak sergey#spivak.kiev.ua zlob-uanic/eunic/ripe
> On 6/27/05, Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> wrote: > > On Sunday 26 June 2005 19:32, Sergey Spivak wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > > portinstall is a ruby program which comes with portupgrade > > > > > > "portinstall" = "portupgrade -N" > > > > Oh. Makes me wonder why 'portinstall' exists at all.While this isn't related to the OP's question, it might be helpful to him. I find portmanager to be vastly superior to portupgrade. In one fell swoop you can update any new ports + rebuild all dependencies. It works well. Combine it with portsnap and life is good! =) It doesn't have a ruby dependency either. Give it a whirl. It rocks.